At the Westminster Sessions, on Saturday, the action against the
scion of a noble house, for an alleged misdemeanour, was removed by certiorari to the Court of Queen's Bench.
At the Middlesex Sessions, on Wednesday, a woman possessed of unusual assurance was examined respecting the settlement of a pauper. She gave some evidence of importance, which she bad kept to the end of her story. The Chairman asked her why she had not mentioned these circumstances before, as it would have saved the Court much trouble ? The woman said " I did tell it to you before, over and over again ; but the truth is, that everybody here keeps talking so much to one another, that you will not bear any thing I have to say. I never saw such conduct, indeed such behaviour in all my life : I never saw such treatment." The Chairman—" Pray, witness, do you wish to be sent somewhere else ?" Witness—" I have no wish to stop here, I can tell you." The Chairman—" Very well ; and I can assure you that if you answer is that impertinent manner, I will send you to the House of Correction." Witness—" I am not anxious to be impertinent ; but you all of you bother me so, that 1 do not know what I say myself. Here's one calls out to me to attend to the Chairman ; then at the same moment there's another tells me to attend to him ; and that gentleman there in the wig and spectacles, [Mr. Adolphus,] in a somewhat shatpish way, says, ' Listen to me, woman;' and whichever I attempt to attend to and to answer, so sure does one of them call out to me not to talk to that gentleman, but to attend to him. Now, if your Worship will only have the kinduess to inform me which of the number of all these gentlemen I really am to attend to, 1 will answer any questions that may be put to me."
The result (which was of no consequence) is not mentioned. A frightful collision between two steam-boats occurred in the Thames about three o'clock on Tuesday morning, near Northfleet Hope, off the Grays, just as they were rounding the point. The Alumna; a Leith packet of about 800 tons, on its way down, came in contact with the Apollo of 120 tons, on its voyage from Yarmouth to London with twenty. five passengers. The Apollo struck the Monarch on the starboard bow ; and being so much smaller, could not withstand the shuck, but went down. The Monarch was brought alongside her as quickly as possible ; and the crew and passengers were all saved, except.the
stewardess and two infant children, to save whom she run down law
the cabin, and thus lost her own life. The Monarch had a pilot on board, who stood on one of the paddle-boxes, the captain on the other; men were on the look-out ahead ; and she had two strong lights, one at the mast-head and the other at her stern. The Apollo also cat ried a light. Most of the Apollo's passengers were poor persons ; and the passengers on the Monarch subscribed about 12/. for their relief, and treated them with great kindness in other ways.
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